In his first year as a starting midfielder, junior John Duffy ranks fourth on the No. 6 Loyola Maryland men’s lacrosse team in goals. The Portland, Ore., resident has drawn inspiration from friend and role model Peter Baum.

Southern California's Kerrigan Miller is The Baltimore Sun's women's lacrosse National Player of the Week for March 20, 2018, after contributing to both game-winning goals in overtime as the Trojans won their first two Pac-12 games.

As head coach of the new Arizona State women's lacrosse program, Courtney Martinez Connor has the Sun Devils off to a 4-1 start as they aim to build the foundation for a nationally competitive Division I program

A day after releasing a statement saying he had no connection to agent Andy Miller, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said in a postgame news conference that neither he nor any of his staff members had any involvement in former player Diamond Stone receiving more than $14,000 in improper payments.

Nike has signed more universities to outfitting deals, but rival Under Armour says it can succeed with a targeted approach based on identifying the most suitable partners — and geography plays a significant role.

The play wasn't much to look at: a handoff to the running back, who went nowhere. But it was a milestone for Morgan Mahalak, Towson's quarterback who hadn't taken a snap in a football game for three years. It was a rude baptism for the redshirt sophomore, a onetime ballyhooed high school quarterback who trekked 3,000 miles for a fresh start and a chance to lead Towson to the playoffs.

The Tigers (7-4 last year, 5-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association) take on a once-sorry South Florida bunch, which after three losing seasons in the American Athletic Conference has morphed into a power to be reckoned with.

When the Ravens are on the clock Thursday night with the sixth overall draft pick in the NFL draft, they'll have several enticing defensive options. Depending on what happens in front of them, the Ravens could choose a relentless pass rusher or a physically imposing defensive end, a freakishly athletic inside linebacker or a lockdown defensive back. Finding the best fit from that group, however, may be more difficult than it sounds. Whether it has to do with health, size, position or ability to

March Madness is a time when Under Armour and other fitness apparel and footwear companies battle for the reflected glow of fans' intense college loyalties. The brands are betting that fans will heed the subtler images displayed on the uniforms of NCAA basketball tournament teams: Under Armour's interlocking "UA," Nike's swoosh, the three stripes of Adidas.

Several coaches who've watched the league closely — including one Hall of Famer who's coached in the league and one who has taken his lumps coaching in it the past two years — were surprised by some of the Big Ten teams' seedings.

Things have been quiet in College Park the past couple of weeks regarding the search for fired football coach Randy Edsall's successor. Athletic director Kevin Anderson, whose own legacy with the Terps will certainly be tied to this hire, has declined to discuss who he might be looking at since saying on the day of Edsall's firing that Maryland wanted a coach "to excite the fan base." Many names have surfaced in a variety of media outlets, a few that seem to have validity and others that appear

Most college coaching searches are conducted over weeks, sometimes days. To find a replacement for Maryland football coach Randy Edsall, athletic director Kevin Anderson will have a couple of months. In some ways, it might make the search easier, given that Anderson will have a lot more time than he did when he hired Edsall to replace Ralph Friedgen in 2011. In other ways, maneuvering through the process after a midseason firing is "tricky," according to former Wisconsin athletic director Pat Richter.

In his comments after coach Randy Edsall was fired, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said the schools is looking for its next football coach to be someone to "excite the fan base," particularly on the offensive side of the ball. College football is filled with young offensive minds right now, many of whom have recently ascended to head coaching jobs.

Long before he carved out a reputation as an offensive mastermind and became known as one of the foremost innovators in the NFL, Chip Kelly introduced the Johns Hopkins football team to what became known as the "whistle ball."

"You look at the discussions and the things that are being talked about nationally, the excitement, it's a 180-degree turn from the conversations that were going on a year ago," Penn State coach and former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin said Thursday.